In The Autumn (Lemmony Goodness Challenge)

This is my entry for the Lemmony Goodness challenge. I'm not too good at summaries... but here I go.

When Zaphyria looses all that she had and all that she is, she gets lost in the dark, only to be thrown into a world of chaos, forbidden love, and fatal attraction to a wounded boy without a name.
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The orchard was
silent in the twilight, not even the footsteps of the man
striding through the trees, dark eyes straying to the
multi-coloured sky, making a sound.

He pulled the
tailored jacket closer around his broad
frame.

His thoughts
lingered on the freezing night air; he wasn't used to the cold. A
bird's cry above him slashed his thoughts, he glared up, but it
disappeared before he claimed its soul. His eyes tore from the
bare spot in the sky, and narrowed in the direction of the form
beside the river.

"You are late,"
the figure observed.

Lucifer leant
lazily against the nearest tree, and his hand reached up to
snatch a lemon from the masses of leaves.

His eyes rolled.
"I am never late," he scolded quietly, but his voice echoed
through the trees, "when time fails to exist, your accusations
Ma'am are quite impossible." Lucifer watched in delight as the
figure faltered.

"Yet there is
time here." The voice richoetted around the
orchard.

Again Lucifer
sighed. "Perhaps, but I neither care nor have time for mortal
reasoning. You have been watching them for far too long,
Ma'am."

The figure
shifted in the twilight. "You have no care for your humanity, but
I still care for the remainder of mine."

"Humanity is
weak." Lucifer observed, dropping the lemon as it became rotten
in his hand.

"They are
strong," the voice corrected him.

Lucifer pushed
away from the tree, sauntering forwards. The figure beside the
water stiffened, and refused to turn to look at him. His hands,
losing their warmth, reached out towards her, inches from her
hair before his hand recoiled.

"They are weak.
You and your annoying companions are pure." He paused, "And I
am..."

"Arrogant."

He found himself
smiling. "Perhaps."

"Bound."

It was Lucifer's
turn to flinch now, and he took a step backwards. He said
nothing, the anger flowing from every inch of his human
body.

"Cat got your
tongue, Lucifer?"

Lucifer bit his
human lip. "You are so bitter, Lila. You were so pure and
harmless, young and naive." He reached out, boldly touching the
white braid running across her spine. "What happened to
you?"

Lila stepped from
his touch. "You haven't changed much,
Lucifer."

He smirked, his
dark eyes glimpsing red slightly. "Maybe not." He whispered, his
gaze focusing on the moon staring sheepishly down at them. "But
at least-"

"At least what,
darling Lucifer?" Lila spat sarcastically, "You are bound? You
will never be free?"

Lucifer's smirk
vanished. "You forget, mon cherie, through no fault of my own was
this concequence." He replied, his voice becoming as cold and as
hard as ice.

"Young and naive,
Lucifer. You said it yourself. A stupid little girl wanting to
live, and not die in flame."

"I am alive. I
did not die in the flames."

"You were born
for the fire, Lucifer," She motioned to herself, "I faced
sacrifice."

"Sacrifice."
Lucifer smiled fondly at the mention of the word."Even in your
blissful sacrifice you would have become mine." Lucifer pondered
aloud.

Lila held her
hand before her, the symbol scarred into her palm stared up at
the moon, and the moon cautiously looked back.
"Perhaps."

Lucifer blinked,
his mind flicking back those years,
remembering.

Watching.
Lucifer's eyes changed, the dark being over ruled by the red that
seeped into his pupils. He shook the memories from his mind. He
couldn't think of them. He wouldn't.

"Why did you call
me?" He asked, "I waited two hundred
years..."

"And then you
gave up hope of me." Lila finished, stooping to touch the water.
"I have a proposition."

"You are
jesting?" Lucifer frowned, rolling his shoulders in the
cold.

Neither humanity
or one of his own had forged a deal with him in a long time.
Perhaps they had finally learnt their pitiful
lessons.

Lila lowered
herself to the floor, crossing her legs into the water. Lucifer
watched as the water flowed over her legs. "I don't jest, or have
you forgotten?" Lilatilted herface to the moon."It is peaceful
now, they have ceased their crying."

Lucifer hesitated
before he answered. "You are causing something, little one, yet
your cards are held closley to your chest."

"Still you mock
me." Lila observed.

"I do not mock
you," Lucifer replied, "I simply find joy in your disobedience. I
presume he is oblivious to your decietful
antics?"

"This is a two
way deal, Lucifer."

"You have avoided
my question, ma cherie."

"As there are
more important things to speak of. There is endless time here,
but there is urgent matters above."

Lucifer frowned,
rolling his shoulders. "This proposal? What is in it for
me?"

Lila kept her
eyes forward. "A broken Bound." She replied simply. She smiled,
as she felt him jerk, surprised but almost completely
willing.

"In return for?"
Lucifer managed to keep his voice level.

"You need to help
me make One Fall. And curse his soul." Lila answered
levelly.